Apparently, Stricklin was making $1mm per year.

[John Lorry]

Per CL:

The lead internal candidate appears to be baseball coach John Cohen, multiple sources told The Clarion-Ledger. Stricklin extended Cohen’s contract in July and included a new title of associate athletic director. That contract also pays Cohen $750,000 annually, or about $250,000 less than what Stricklin made in his final year at Mississippi State.

Other than Cohen, the article mentions John David Wicker of GA Tech and Jason Cook of TAMU as potential outside candidates (though there are a couple of in-program people that were speculated as potential candidates as well).

If there is anything that gave me hope, it was this:

MSU president Mark Keenum said he would use a search firm and would move swiftly "“to find an individual with the vision and leadership to meet high expectations for success at Mississippi State.”

 

[Bulldogg31]

Definitely better than "I got a buddy who might be good at Athletic Directin'. I'll give 'em a holler".

 

[MaroonNation]

Now I'm even more pissed at Stricklin. He left for a small pay raise.

 

[dickiedawg]

I hope this is sarcasm, as it was clearly a typo.

 

[John Lorry]

I literally just saw this in another article:

The Clarion-Ledger had reported that Stricklin, who was making about $500,000 a year at Mississippi State, turned down the Florida offer earlier this month before the school returned with a better offer.

Link

I don't know which is accurate.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

I hate to break it to you, but it's not a small pay raise in the sense that his ceiling at Florida is greater than the ceiling at Mississippi State.

 

[MaroonNation]

Was the typo "meets high expectations for success at Mississippi State"?

 

[LexSCDOG]

I saw this article and wondered if this was correct. Everything I read prior was that he was at $500k. So maybe the CL was incorrect here and meant "more" instead of "less"...

 

[KurtRambis4]

Why are you

pissed he's leaving if he's never done anything?

 

[bulldogbaja]

Look, the CL gets the big picture stuff right, and doesn't worry about details like "more" vs. "less".

 

[RocketDawg]

Now I'm even more pissed at Stricklin. He left for a small pay raise.

I don't think the $1M was right. Pretty sure the CL got their facts wrong.

 

[dogwhisperer]

I thought everybody hated the CL.....

I don't think the $1M was right. Pretty sure the CL got their facts wrong.

why would y'all take anything they say as the truth after bashing it every time you get on sixpack. Some of y'all are idiots.

 

[PiedmontDawg]

Where's GuynamedJayontheRadio when you need him?

 

[BulldogBlitz]

i'd do the job for half of what he was making.

then again, I was also trying to get a job at the yokohama plant in west point.

 

[RocketDawg]

why would y'all take anything they say as the truth after bashing it every time you get on sixpack. Some of y'all are idiots.

I don't bash it because I don't read it ... I know nothing about it. It's not even available here in printed form, which I suppose is normal since it's out of state. I guess I could do the online version but I have no reason to.

 

[MaroonNation]

I never said he hasn't done anything. I think he has been a hell of an AD minus a few hiccups. But overall top notch AD. To be fair I hate the whole "Hail State" thing and want our football field to read "Mississippi State" in one end zone and "Bulldogs" in the other. Like it has always been.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

I would've expected Nashville

I don't think the $1M was right. Pretty sure the CL got their facts wrong.

To say he was making $2M at State, but took a pay cut to get away.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I guess I just

misinterpreted the "typo 'meets high expectations'" jab****